O'Donnell, 'Council of Remiremont', Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9404
URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmcr/bmcr-9404-o'donnell-council

I'm happy to announce a new net resource, quite experimental, but
betokening an interesting future.  The traditional student commentary, of
the sort we have been publishing in Bryn Mawr Commentaries since Rick
Hamilton had the stroke of genius for that series fifteen years ago, is a
codex book crying out to be hypertext.  I can now offer a single, short
but amusing example of a Bryn Mawr Commentary as an Internet-accessible
hypertext.  You can call up the Latin text on screen, read it:  if a word
is highlighted, you click on it and it takes you immediately to the
commentary; another click brings you back to the text. 

The text in question is the witty "Council of Remiremont", the tale of
twelfth century nuns debating solemnly whether knights or scholars make
better lovers.  (The answer should have been obvious, readers of this list
will say.) The print version was prepared with great care and learning by
Paul Pascal, professor emeritus of Classics at the University of
Washington, and all we have now done is massage his work into hypertext
form.  The poem is about 250 lines long and makes "a good read". 

To access this text, you must have some form of World-Wide Web browser. 
The fancy ones, Mosaic and the like, are quite pretty, but you can do this
with a pure vt100 terminal as well, using the www application or, my
preference, lynx.  If you don't know how to get at the Web from your
network connection, ask locally among the wizards:  they should know. 
What you need to know to get at this text is this mystic sequence of
runes: 

	http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/remiremont.html

Comments, suggestions, and the like are most welcome.  There are
occasionally these days bugs in the "links" between files, so be prepared
for the occasional anomaly; if it recurs and is annoying, let me know. 

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu